Sheelah Kolhatkar

Sheelah Kolhatkar joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2016. Previously, she was a features editor and national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, where she wrote about Wall Street, hedge funds, financial crime, Silicon Valley, women’s issues, and national politics. She has profiled characters as diverse as the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, pimco founder Bill Gross, hedge-fund mogul John Paulson, and President Trump. In 2010, her work was honored with a New York Press Club award. She has appeared as a commentator on business and economic issues on CNBC, PBS, CBS, NPR, and Bloomberg Television. Her features and reviews have also appeared in New York magazine, The Atlantic, the New York Times, the Times Book Review, Time, and other publications. Before becoming a journalist, she worked as an analyst at a hedge fund. She is the author of “Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.”

Ron Shaich has stepped down as the C.E.O. of Panera to focus on a pet cause: warning the world about the danger of fixating on short-term profits at the cost of social stability.

November 23, 2018

At a time when accountability is declining in both the U.S. government and corporate America, there is little external oversight of a company like McKinsey, and we are left asking the people at the firm to impose it on themselves.